The Post Office Greenock Directory - National Library of Scotland

ADVERTISEMENTS.GLASGOW AND WEST OF SCOTLAND1FOB THE PEOTECTION OF TEADE.OFFICES :-57, VIRGINIA STREET, GLASGOW.ADAM PR1NGLE, Esq.President:(of Messrs Thomas Chalmers & Co.)Vice-President :SAMUEL M'CULLOCH, Esq. (of Messrs S. & W. M'Culloch.)Treasurer:ROBERT WYLIE, Esq. (of Messrs Wylie & Lochhead.)THISSOCIETY, which has been in operation since August,1852, is composed of Bankers, Manufacturers, Merchants, andTraders in Glasgow and elsewhere throughout the United Kingdom,associated together for Mutual Protection.The Society's objects are :—1. To enable Members to obtain authentic information as to thestanding and trustworthiness of persons proposing to trade, which, bythe co-operation of between forty and fifty similar Societies, can beprocured from nearly 1000 different places, both at home, in thecolonies, and abroad.2. To protect Members from the designs of the fradulent, by extensivelycirculating information regarding the operations of suchparties.3. To recover for the Members, in the cheapest and most expeditiousmanner outstanding over-due debts, which is done for a Commissionon the amount recovered, or for a subscription, according tothe number of debts handed in for recovery, irrespective of theiramount.4. To originate and support improvements on the laws affectingTrade and Commerce, and on the Constitution of the Courts of Law.The Executive Committee of this Society have for some time beennegotiating with the other Trade Protection Societies in Scotland,in order to effect a weekly issue to the Members, at the lowest possiblecharge, of the recorded Protests on Bills and Promissory Notes,and the Decrees in absence in the Court of Session and the Sheriff"Courts, their arrangements for which are now completed.The attention of the Mercantile community is specially directed to thefact, that, although the Offices of the Society are in Glasgow, its mem.bership and operations extend throughout the United Kingdom.Full information as to the Society's objects and operations may beobtained on application to Messrs Peter W. Dixon and Jas. Riddell,Glasgow; or here, toJoint Secretaries,D. R. CRAWFORD, Writer,Resident Law Agent for the Society.Mansion House, )Greenock, April, 1855. Jbb